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Golden mountain Mary Bong, 1880-1958

Title
  1. Golden mountain [videorecording] : Mary Bong, 1880-1958 / Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
Published by
  1. Lincoln, NE : GPN Video, c1995.

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Additional authors
  1. Brown, Blair.
  2. Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
Description
  1. 1 videocassette (17 min., 18 sec.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences; 1/2 in.
Summary
  1. Tells the story of Mary Bong, the first documented Chinese woman in Sitka, Alaska, through journal entries, dramatization, archival footage and vintage photographs. May Bong was a midwife to a tribe of Native Americans in Sitka, was a fisherwoman and was the matron of the federal jail in Sitka. Also discusses women in the 1898 gold rush in Alaska.
Series statement
  1. Nobody's girls,: five women of the West
Alternative title
  1. Mary Bong, 1880-1958
Subject
  1. Women > Alaska > History
  2. Documentary films
  3. Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska
  4. Chinese American women > Alaska > Biography
  5. Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
  6. Bong, Mary, 1880-1958
  7. Alaska > History > 1867-1959
  8. Women pioneers > Alaska > Biography
Credits (note)
  1. Narrator, Blair Brown.
System details (note)
  1. VHS.
Title
  1. Golden mountain [videorecording] : Mary Bong, 1880-1958 / Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
Imprint
  1. Lincoln, NE : GPN Video, c1995.
Series
  1. Nobody's girls,: five women of the West
System details
  1. VHS.
Credits
  1. Narrator, Blair Brown.
Added author
  1. Brown, Blair.
  2. Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
Branch call number
  1. VTH 5021 G
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